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Counting the number of items in a visual scene remains a fundamental yet challenging task in computer vision. Traditional approaches to solving this problem rely on domain-specific counting architectures, which are trained using datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Kuinan Hou , Jing Mi , Marco Zorzi , Lamberto Ballan , Alberto Testolin

Visual commonsense understanding requires Vision Language (VL) models to not only understand image and text but also cross-reference in-between to fully integrate and achieve comprehension of the visual scene described. Recently, various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Zhecan Wang , Haoxuan You , Yicheng He , Wenhao Li , Kai-Wei Chang , Shih-Fu Chang

Visual entity tracking is an innate cognitive ability in humans, yet it remains a critical bottleneck for Vision-Language Models (VLMs). This deficit is often obscured in existing video benchmarks by visual shortcuts. We introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Tiedong Liu , Wee Sun Lee

In recent years, vision and language pre-training (VLP) models have advanced the state-of-the-art results in a variety of cross-modal downstream tasks. Aligning cross-modal semantics is claimed to be one of the essential capabilities of VLP…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Zheng Ma , Shi Zong , Mianzhi Pan , Jianbing Zhang , Shujian Huang , Xinyu Dai , Jiajun Chen

Visual Language Models (VLMs) show remarkable performance in visual reasoning tasks, successfully tackling college-level challenges that require high-level understanding of images. However, some recent reports of VLMs struggling to reason…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Gene Tangtartharakul , Katherine R. Storrs

Visual grounding, localizing objects from natural language descriptions, represents a critical bridge between language and vision understanding. While multimodal large language models (MLLMs) achieve impressive scores on existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Rang Li , Lei Li , Shuhuai Ren , Hao Tian , Shuhao Gu , Shicheng Li , Zihao Yue , Yudong Wang , Wenhan Ma , Zhe Yang , Jingyuan Ma , Zhifang Sui , Fuli Luo

Vision-Language models (VLMs) show impressive abilities to answer questions on visual inputs (e.g., counting objects in an image), yet demonstrate higher accuracies when performing an analogous task on text (e.g., counting words in a text).…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Yaniv Nikankin , Dana Arad , Yossi Gandelsman , Yonatan Belinkov

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved strong performance on standard vision-language benchmarks, yet often rely on surface-level recognition rather than deeper reasoning. We propose visual word puzzles as a challenging alternative, as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Ali Najar , Alireza Mirrokni , Arshia Izadyari , Sadegh Mohammadian , Amir Homayoon Sharifizade , Asal Meskin , Mobin Bagherian , Ehsaneddin Asgari

Social media's global reach amplifies the spread of information, highlighting the need for robust Natural Language Processing tasks like stance detection across languages and modalities. Prior research predominantly focuses on text-only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Jake Vasilakes , Carolina Scarton , Zhixue Zhao

Human language is grounded on multimodal knowledge including visual knowledge like colors, sizes, and shapes. However, current large-scale pre-trained language models rely on text-only self-supervised training with massive text data, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Weizhi Wang , Li Dong , Hao Cheng , Haoyu Song , Xiaodong Liu , Xifeng Yan , Jianfeng Gao , Furu Wei

Multimodal entity linking (MEL), a task aimed at linking mentions within multimodal contexts to their corresponding entities in a knowledge base (KB), has attracted much attention due to its wide applications in recent years. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Hongze Mi , Jinyuan Li , Xuying Zhang , Haoran Cheng , Jiahao Wang , Di Sun , Gang Pan

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) excel in integrating visual and textual information for vision-centric tasks, but their handling of inconsistencies between modalities is underexplored. We investigate VLMs' modality preferences when faced with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Ailin Deng , Tri Cao , Zhirui Chen , Bryan Hooi

Extracting meaningful entities belonging to predefined categories from Visually-rich Form-like Documents (VFDs) is a challenging task. Visual and layout features such as font, background, color, and bounding box location and size provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Hao Wang , Xiahua Chen , Rui Wang , Chenhui Chu

Entity-aware image captioning aims to describe named entities and events related to the image by utilizing the background knowledge in the associated article. This task remains challenging as it is difficult to learn the association between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Wentian Zhao , Yao Hu , Heda Wang , Xinxiao Wu , Jiebo Luo

Vision-language models (VLMs) excel at broad visual understanding but remain coarse-grained, exhibit visual biases, and miss subtle visual details. Existing training corpora reinforce this limitation by emphasizing general recognition ("Is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Damiano Marsili , Aditya Mehta , Ryan Y. Lin , Georgia Gkioxari

Vision-language models (VLMs) have made substantial progress across a wide range of visual question answering benchmarks, spanning visual reasoning, document understanding, and multimodal dialogue. These improvements are evident in a wide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Dhruba Ghosh , Yuhui Zhang , Ludwig Schmidt

Vision-language modeling (VLM) aims to bridge the information gap between images and natural language. Under the new paradigm of first pre-training on massive image-text pairs and then fine-tuning on task-specific data, VLM in the remote…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Xingxing Weng , Chao Pang , Gui-Song Xia

Visual Language Tracking (VLT) enhances tracking by mitigating the limitations of relying solely on the visual modality, utilizing high-level semantic information through language. This integration of the language enables more advanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Xuchen Li , Shiyu Hu , Xiaokun Feng , Dailing Zhang , Meiqi Wu , Jing Zhang , Kaiqi Huang

Textual-visual matching aims at measuring similarities between sentence descriptions and images. Most existing methods tackle this problem without effectively utilizing identity-level annotations. In this paper, we propose an identity-aware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Shuang Li , Tong Xiao , Hongsheng Li , Wei Yang , Xiaogang Wang

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable proficiency in general multi-modal understanding; yet they struggle to efficiently acquire continually evolving domain-specific skills. Conventional approaches to enhancing VLM…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Zhiyu Xu , Lean Wang , Yuanxin Liu , Lei Li , Hao Zhou , Fandong Meng , Jie Zhou , Xu Sun